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Famous Author Topic: Gore Vidal
Thesis: Gore Vidal wrote many books with gay characters and was apart of World War II, had no higher education after high school since he went into the war, and known as the "Bad Boy" of American Literature and a important figure in the gay literature heritage.

  1. Known as the bad boy of American Literature
  2. why is he a bad boy of American Lit?
  3. Wrote many books on WWII
  4. What kind of books and why?
  5. Novelist, playwriter, essayist, mystery writer
  6. Fought in WWII, entered WWII in teens and was rising in ranks to sergeant, no formal higher education
  7. Did he like his experience Why?
  8. Wrote gay characters into his books, beginning with his 1st book, Williwaw
  9. Why gay characters?
  10. Know for his important for the gay literature heritage
  11. Why is he known to be important in gay literature?
  12. US writer and critic
  13. Most of his fiction is deals with satirically with history and polotics
  14. Born at West Point Military Academy in New York, lived most of his life with his blinded grandfather
  15. Vidal, Gore. Gore Vidal. Biography and complete works. . 12/3/10 12/3/10 <http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/vidal.htm>.
  16. Army life gave him the experience to write his first novel Williwaw(1946)
  17. Graduated from Phillip Exetar Academy
  18. Didn't like when people used the word gay
  19. Believed and insisted that "HOMOSEXUAL" was a adjective
  20. Most of his life he was reticent about his personal life
  21. Began his writing carrer at age 19
  22. He wrote Williwaw before his detachment to an Alaska Harbor
  23. His novel was successful and chronologically first of the WWII war novels
  24. A few years later, the New York Times refused to review his books on "Homosexualality"
  25. Hired as a Metro Goldwyn Mayer ScreenWriter in 1956
  26. At least in the USA, Vidal is a well respected more as a essayist then a novelist
  27. Wrote detective stories under the name of Edgar Box
  28. Essay and Non-Fiction books:
  29. Rocking the Boat, 1963
  30. Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship, 1969
  31. Sex, Death and Money: 1969
  32. Homage to Daniel Shays, 1972
  33. Matters of Fact and of Fiction
  34. Five of just his many Eassy and Non-Fiction books writen by Gore Vidal
  35. Strongly crictical against George W. Bush
  36. Born into a politically knowledged family
  37. He ran for the US Senate of California
  38. Raced against Governer Jerry Brown
  39. Was democratic and racing for democratic US Senate
  40. Was an Unsuccessful Democratic Canidantee for Congress
  41. 1970-72 Vidal was one of the Chairmen for the People's Party
  42. Believed there was only one party, the Property Party
  43. Also believed that the Republican's were the stupider branch of the Property Party
  44. Said the Democrats were more cutier, prettier, and abit more corrupt until today
  45. Thinks of himself as a "Conservative"
  46. Has a protective, almost proprietary attitude toward his native land and its politics
  47. Suggested that President Rossevelt deliberately provoked Japan to attack the U.S. at Pearl Harbor
  48. Thought that Rossevelt did that to make the entry for American into the war
  49. Believed that FDR had prior knowledge of the attack too
  50. Said that the Japaneese wanted to surrender the whole last few months of WWII but Truman wouldn't listen
  51. Stated that he believed Truman wanted to drop Big Bombs onto the Japaneese
  52. Truman didn't listen to the Jap's just so he could drop the big bombs
  53. Vidal was asked why we believed this, he answered that Truman wanted to "Show off"
  54. "To frighten Stalin. To change the balance of the World Power."
  55. "Truman wanted declare war on Communism"
  56. Also stated that "Perhaps we were starting a pre-emptive world war."
  57. Vidal had an interview with domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh's imprisonment
  58. Said that McVeigh bombed the Federal building as retribution of the FBI's role in the 1993Branch Davidan Compound massacre in Waco, Texas
  59. Was apart of the World Can't Wait group that tried to impeach President George W. Bush
  60. Was apart of the World Can't Wait group to see Bush in jail for war crimes
  61. Believed the US would soon have a dictatorship
  62. Described George W. Bush as the "stupidest man in the United Sttates"
  63. Claimed Bush and his administration have been, and were trying to control the petrolium in Central Asia
  64. Says he isn't a conspiracy theorist, only a analyst
  65. Believed that whatever Bush and his administration touched, it was ruined/screwed up
  66. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/gore-vidal/about-gore-vidal/724/
  67. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece
  68. Believed that Obama would be a better President then Clinton and now he regrets that choice
  69. Vidal states that Obama is diong a dreadful job
  70. Believes Obama is the most intelligent person that we've had for a president for a long time
  71. Was hopeful for Obama but didn't realize that he lacked the experience
  72. Vidal believes America should leave Afghanistan also
  73. Says the "War on Terror" was "Made-up"
  74. Hates liars and believes he lives in a nation of liars
  75. Believed Obama messed up with the healthcare reform
  76. Thinks Obama needs some of Lincoln's "Chill"
  77. States that Hillary Clinton knows more about the world then Obama, making her the best choice for president
  78. Parents had many remarriages and Vidal still hasn't met his step-siblings to this day
  79. Was blacklisted by the media after writing The City and the Pillar
  80. Was asked if he is happy in his life adn he qouted "Call no man happy until he is dead"